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Friday, January 24, 2014

‘An Abortion Doesn’t Un-Rape a Woman’ Says Cold Hearted Pro-Lifer on CNN

‘An Abortion Doesn’t Un-Rape a Woman’ Says Cold Hearted Pro-Lifer on CNN

by Bob Cull
On CNN's Crossfire Wednesday night, pro-lifer, Lila Rose was shown a clip from 2011 in which she tells Glenn Beck, "Abortion adds more violence to that violent act [of rape].”  After the clip, co-host Sally Kohn asked Rose if she felt that a woman who has been raped should be forced to carry her attacker's child to term, to which Rose responded:
[box type="shadow"]“When a woman is raped, that’s a horrible injustice against her.  The rapist should be held to the fullest extent of the law, liable for that, culpable for that. The woman needs healing and the support of her community. But an abortion doesn’t un-rape a woman. An abortion just adds more violence on top of that first she endured.”[/box]
Rose goes on to say, "Look at the story of a someone like Rebecca Kiessling, a woman who was conceived in rape, and she says, 'should I have received the death penalty for the crimes of my father?'"
Later she asserts that abortions are "horrific" and that even in the first trimester the, "hearts [are] beating at three-and-a-half weeks."
At three weeks no such thing has happened, according to the Mayo Clinic website the "baby's heart and a primitive circulatory system will form in the middle layer of cells — the mesoderm."  The Mayo site goes on to say that in the sixth week the, "baby's heart is pumping blood."
The entire time that Rose was speaking NARAL president Ilyse Hogue sat quietly listening never once interrupting, when Rose paused Hogue said, "Isn’t it great that we live in a country where Lila Rose could decide where she would choose to carry her rapist’s pregnancy to term, but her version of morality doesn’t actually dictate what I can choose to do in that moment. And that’s what religious liberty is about."
Watch the video below:
Bob Cull

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